Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius

1. Specialty: Anotomy

2. Book: Fabric of the human body

3. Situation before

   • Galen= supreme
   • No one dared to disagree with Galen
   • Little dissection of human bodies

4. Situation after

   • Proved many of Galen's ideas wrong
   • People saw the importance of dissection
   • Taught people to think for selves and question long established ideas

5. Discoveries

   • Lower jaw has only one bone
   • Dog's womb different to humans
   • Kidneys same height
   • Made 200 corrections to Galen's Book(s)
   • Skull only one bone

6. Born in Belgium

7. One of the first people to dissect human bodies